GRE Word List
POTENTIAL
existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality
The meaning of the word potential is existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |